If You Know the Spell You Can Have Whatever You Want with John Arundel

Ardan Labs Podcast

Bill Kennedy

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🗓️ 23 December 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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John Arundel is software consultant, mentor, and author of the book “For the Love of Go”. We talk about his early fascination with computers, the role his mother played in planting these seeds, and the steps he took in his younger years to follow his passion. We then explore John’s indirect job path, having to settle for work as a technical writer out of college and stumbling into IT and system administration. But the major lesson that comes out of this is that these 'detours' actually served...

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Bill Kennedy and welcome to the Arden Labs podcast.
0:08.8	This is where we get to interview and talk to people in the tech industry, but we try to have a more intimate conversation
0:16.3	instead of just diving deep into technical know-how and things like that.
0:22.8	And today, I'm so excited.
0:25.4	Today, my guess is John Arendall from.
0:27.9	Where are you from, John?
0:28.9	You're there in the UK, right?
0:31.0	Yeah, I'm from Cornwall, England.
0:32.8	Cornwall, awesome.
0:33.9	So we got John today from Cornwall.
0:36.9	And I'm really excited to talk to you, John, because
0:39.3	you know, we've never met. I don't think we've ever met. Now, we know each other from Twitter,
0:44.4	and you're now writing a series of Go books, which I got to review that last blog post you did.
0:51.8	Your writing is excellent, so it's always nice to meet somebody who
0:55.5	can write as well as you do. So that's exciting. Coming from you, that means a lot. You know, I read a lot
1:01.4	of stuff and it's a skill. I don't know how to say, but I love your writing. And the new Go book
1:07.8	that you had just come out for learning Go was excellent too.
1:11.4	So I'm really, really excited.
1:13.5	You've been in the industry for a while now, right?
1:16.0	How long have you been in this industry at this point?
1:19.0	Like 30 years, maybe?
1:20.9	Yeah, a good long time.
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